John Robson: Why Each New Crop of Politicians Raises High Expectations, Then Fails to Deliver

If you were to aspire to high political office you’d be bombarded with advice about tactics, but get very little about administrative or policy tactics, let alone strategy, writes John Robson. The Canadian Press/Justin Tang

Commentary

Commenting on the rapid fall from electoral grace of an apparently promising politician, a news story cited a “communications professor” as saying the politician “erred by setting expectations too high” with a “first 100 days” promise of “concrete results on housing, health care, the environment and public safety.” Which struck me as getting the whole mess characteristically backwards.